
Aperture Desk Job
Valve
Taste attributes: actionadventurecomedyscience fictionlightimaginarylinearglossyemotionally undemanding
Boxlist takeExpect a breezy, stylish puzzle game, heightened rather than true to life. Best if you like polish over grit.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: very glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score
IGDB rating
76 / 100
93 ratings
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About This Game
Aperture Desk Job reimagines the been-there-done-that genre of walking simulators and puts them in the lightning-spanked, endorphin-gorged world of sitting still behind things. You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work — your heart full of hope and your legs full of dreams, eager to climb that corporate ladder. But life’s got other plans, and they all involve chairs. Designed as a free playable short for Valve’s new Steam Deck, Desk Job walks you through the handheld’s controls and features, while not being nearly as boring as that sounds. Lower your expectations: This is not a sequel to Portal. Now get ready to raise them slightly, because it is in the expanded universe of those games. Desk Job puts you squarely in the driver’s seat at Aperture Science. Then quickly removes the driving part and adds a desk in front of the seat.
Summary: IGDB
Story
You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work - your heart full of hope and your legs full of dreams, eager to climb that corporate ladder. But life’s got other plans, and they all involve chairs.
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Details
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
- Released
- 1 March 2022
- Series
- Portal
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Time to beat
- 1h rushed, 1h normally, 1h complete
- Taste scores
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- Source
- IGDB
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